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Dasha Zhukova Confirms She's Launching a New Magazine

fashionologie — Fri, 27 May 2011 08:09:37 PDT

>> There have been rumors circulating in the last couple of months that Dasha Zhukova - since resigning from POP last November - was working on a new magazine. Now, she confirms the rumors are true.

Dubbed Garage (the same as her flagship Moscow museum, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture), it's set to launch in September and will be an art magazine with a strong fashion angle. "It's going to be a girls' magazine," Zhukova says. "I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day."

She's also enlisted former Vogue Paris editor Joan Juliet Buck as a consultant for the magazine, as well as Vanessa Traina. "I'll set projects up and hand them over," Zhukova explains. "I'm a delegator and I find that quite easy. I feel I do it intuitively. But I have to trust that the people I work with are going to make decisions I approve of."

Gisele Reveals New Beauty Line And Poses With Baby Benjamin Rein in April Vogue

coutorture — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:40:22 PDT

In a selection from the April Vogue cover story, "Earth Mother," now live on Vogue.com, Gisele Bundchen reveals the details of her new beauty line and shares her Bostonian home life with Joan Juliet Buck. The accompanying editorial, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, follows Gisele to the beaches of Costa Rica where she poses with her six-week-old baby boy, Bejamin Rein.

In the article Gisele is excited to discuss her upcoming beauty product line, called Senjaa, which will launch with three products later this year and has been developed to empower teens. According to Bundchen, "I wanted to teach girls to love themselves and take care of their bodies. What is the first thing you see every morning? Your face! What do you put every day on your face? Cream! I have made the simplest, purest cream-an everyday cream-but it comes with an affirmation." Those affirmations are written on the collection's cardboard packaging with a sliding tab that reveals different motivational phrases.

The natural products will not be sold in a store, rather on a website to build a community, "so I can give my little tips," and will start with three items-a day cream, a night cream, and a mud mask.

Source: Patrick Demarchelier/Vogue

Former Vogue Paris Editor-in-Chief Joan Juliet Buck Returns to Acting

fashionologie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:24:45 PDT

>> There are plenty of model-turned-actresses, but editor-turned-actress is a less populated category. Joan Juliet Buck, Vogue Paris's editor-in-chief from 1994 to 2001 and a current contributing editor at Vogue - she most recently did Christy Turlington's cover story for the August 2009 issue - was a child actress for Disney back in 1961's Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog, and made a return to screen over the weekend in Julie & Julia, which features Meryl Streep as Julia Child.

Buck's years in Paris paid off - she plays a character with a French accent, who in her words, is "The B*tch: the cold, mean proprietor of the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in 1949, Madame Elizabeth Brassart. I have four scenes. In each scene I abuse Meryl Streep. That was my return to acting." A slice of her work in the movie - which Elle's Joe Zee thought she "played so well" - can be seen from 2:20 to 2:25 here.

So how did she end up in the movie? »

Where Will Karl Lagerfeld, Naomi Campbell, Alexander Wang, and More Be For Fashion's Night Out 2010?

fashionologie — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:47:07 PDT

>> Fashion's Night Out is back with even more bang in its second year: in addition to a CBS special documenting the occasion, the official directory for the event - scheduled Sept. 10, from 6-11 pm -boasts almost 1,000 events, including a public fashion show for the first time ever. Check out some of the highlights, below.

1. Karl Lagerfeld Will Be In Town

He's hosting a Chanel dinner the night before Fashion's Night Out, and accepting a Fashion Visionary Award (from the Couture Council of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology) at a luncheon the day of, so he's definitely in New York for the occasion. Word is he'll be at Chanel's Soho store - where they're also offering complimentary manicures and selling the forthcoming Les Khakis de Chanel nail polish collection for one night. Alternatively, the 57th Street Chanel boutique is offering visitors the option to color-customize their very own pair of iconic Chanel ballet flats.

Block parties, exclusives, and models galore »